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railroader

n. 1 One who works for a railroad company. 2 One who railroads people.

WordNet
railroader

n. an employee of a railroad [syn: trainman, railroad man, railwayman, railway man]

Usage examples of "railroader".

Crowds of striking railroaders, their families, and those of sympathetic steelworkers had joined together to swarm through the yards and prevent it.

She was tempted to recount the wheedling she had to employ on visits to New York and Philadelphia, scratching up writing assignments from railroaders, supplemented by loans from abolitionists sympathetic with the cause of keeping a score of black girls from the life the slavers had in store.

Sam Calkins had curious associates, but for a man who was a pugilist as well as a railroader, that was not surprising.

She was tempted to recount the wheedling she had to employ on visits to New York and Philadelphia, scratching up writing assignments from railroaders, supplemented by loans from abolitionists sympathetic with the cause of keeping a score of black girls from the life the slavers had in store.

A town the size of Mannington (the model for Grantville) is likely to have five to seven model railroaders (Atlas Model Railroad Forum).

The din of voices and music from the saloons overpowered the quiet conversations of residents while the rowdy shouts and laughter of cowboys and railroaders out for a good time dominated all else.